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Hal Coyote's autopsy
The NY Department of Environmental COnservation released the results of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated coyote caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal had heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat poison in his system. It's hard out there, folks. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com Make Levees, Not War |
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Hal Coyote's autopsy
"Kreisleriana" wrote in message ... The NY Department of Environmental COnservation released the results of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated coyote caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal had heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat poison in his system. It's hard out there, folks. I hadn't realised he'd died, last thing I knew I'd thought he'd been relocated. Very sad. Tweed |
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Hal Coyote's autopsy
Kreisleriana wrote:
The NY Department of Environmental COnservation released the results of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated coyote caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal had heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat poison in his system. especially when your eyeballs bleed because someone put a loop around your throat, a muzzle over your mouth, and held you down to be "tagged" you're "it" for the day and dead he was in bad shape but no doubt the rough handling for tagging him killed him. he may have died anyway but there is little excuse for what they did to him which caused his death. he had a weak heart. i'm not sure how they missed the heartworms but that's another issue. and the blood thinner? that also should be the common blood test for clotting times. rat poison is warfarin for use in humans and quite commonly monitored. what's good is that now, supposedly, they will review the protocols and try not to kill other animals or at least, not hasten their demise |
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Hal Coyote's autopsy
Christina Websell wrote:
"Kreisleriana" wrote in message ... The NY Department of Environmental COnservation released the results of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated coyote caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal had heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat poison in his system. It's hard out there, folks. I hadn't realised he'd died, last thing I knew I'd thought he'd been relocated. Very sad. Tweed I thought the same thing. Why did they kill him? Why didn't they just leave him alone? He wasn't bothering anyone. Central Park is home to drug dealers, street hustlers (prostitutes) and thieves, but they chose to go after a coyote who had probably been living there without a problem for years. It's sad. We are pushing animals out of their habitats, then unruly humans push other humans out of the areas they chose to be a nice relaxing park, only to have this animal come and try to live and get killed for doing so. So sad. I saw on the news the other night police in Boston trying to get a wild tom turkey across the road into the woods. It wanted to get to the other side (stop with the obvious jokes!) because it's mating season. But why couldn't it get across the road? Because we've cut into the natural habitat with highways and cars. The poor thing was hopping up on dividing walls, flapping its wings and refusing to be 'herded'. Well, you can't herd cats, either, can you? (And yes, I've seen the cat herding video, pretty funny; but I wonder how all those British shorthairs wound up in America LOL) Jill |
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Hal Coyote's autopsy
On 2006-04-09 03:49:33 -0500, "jmcquown" said:
Christina Websell wrote: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message ... The NY Department of Environmental COnservation released the results of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated coyote caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal had heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat poison in his system. It's hard out there, folks. I hadn't realised he'd died, last thing I knew I'd thought he'd been relocated. Very sad. Tweed I thought the same thing. Why did they kill him? Why didn't they just leave him alone? He wasn't bothering anyone. I dont' think they killed him. I think he died while they were trying to relocate him. If he had rat poison in his system, I imagine he was scavaging in areas where people put out poison for rats and may not have been long for the world if that kept up. I imagine it's pretty dangerous to eat stuff lying around NY since there ARE so many rats. |
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Hal Coyote's autopsy
Karen wrote:
On 2006-04-09 03:49:33 -0500, "jmcquown" said: Christina Websell wrote: "Kreisleriana" wrote in message ... The NY Department of Environmental Conservation released the results of the necropsy done on poor Hal, the spunky but ill-fated coyote caught in Central Park a couple of weeks ago. The animal had heartworm (keep up those meds, everybody), and traces of rat poison in his system. It's hard out there, folks. I hadn't realized he'd died, last thing I knew I'd thought he'd been relocated. Very sad. Tweed I thought the same thing. Why did they kill him? Why didn't they just leave him alone? He wasn't bothering anyone. I don't think they killed him. I think he died while they were trying to relocate him. If he had rat poison in his system, I imagine he was savaging in areas where people put out poison for rats and may not have been long for the world if that kept up. I imagine it's pretty dangerous to eat stuff lying around NY since there ARE so many rats. He died while being relocated, they thought of the stress of being relocated, but wanted to be sure, hence the necropsy. |
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Hal Coyote's autopsy
On 2006-04-09, Karen wrote:
I dont' think they killed him. I think he died while they were trying to relocate him. If he had rat poison in his system, I imagine he was scavaging in areas where people put out poison for rats and may not have been long for the world if that kept up. I imagine it's pretty dangerous to eat stuff lying around NY since there ARE so many rats. Rat eats poison, coyote eats easily caught rat, coyote gets rat poison. -- The night is just the shadow of the Earth. |
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Hal Coyote's autopsy
Bev A. wrote: They didn't kill him, he died when they were tagging him just prior to releasing him in a new location. The necropsy revealed that he'd ingested rat poison and also had heart worms. Warfarin causes bleeding and he was bleeding from his eyeballs by their putting his neck in a noose and a muzzle and bonding his feet - that's the immediate cause of death, not the heart worms. Why did they not look for clotting times and heart worms - that would have been reasonable and considerate. Sounds like sloppy and cruel treatment of a coyote by people who should know better but could care less. Not atypical for New York city. There will be a review because the death was preventable. He was treated way too roughly. And he did not deserve this. If you saw the picture where the look in his eyes was that of one who knew his life was not going to be good. A very sad look in his cage. Central Park is home to drug dealers, street hustlers (prostitutes) and thieves, but they chose to go after a coyote who had probably been living there without a problem for years. It's sad. We are pushing animals out of their habitats, then unruly -- Bev A. Your characterization of Central Park is does not jive with my observations. Are you talking from recent experience then? About the only hustling I saw in Central Park was three card monte. |
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